Feb/100
Snow in Hull this morning
It's always pleasant to wake up and everything be covered in white. Makes me want to go back to the alps and do some snowboarding. No hills in Hull. Had a 9.15 lecture, now time to do some work on my Poker Project.
Feb/100
CM-Group graduate recruiting at Hull Uni
Yesterday, Monday, CM group held a presentation at Hull Uni looking to recruit a graduate. One of their largest clients is Microsoft which is pretty cool. They create training material for Microsoft's newest technologies; books, labs, tutorials. Graduates can work towards a Microsoft certification and are paid around 20 grand. Not bad. Small company based in Bristol.
Feb/100
Updated WordPress to 2.9.1
WordPress has been updated to the latest version 2.9.1. I had to update it manually as the Dashboard method is not working. Some other things like seearching and downloading plugins from the dashboard. I can imagine it is something to do with my hosting (Free Hostia)
Feb/100
Installed Windows 7 on 6-7 year old Notebook
As I previously wrote, the 40GB HDD in my aging Dell Insipron 600m laptop died so I installed Ubuntu on a 16GB USB stick. That served me well for a good while but I just bought a cheap 40GB replacement drive off eBay for under 20 pounds and installed Windows 7 Professional on it. To my surprise it installed fine but was missing most drivers so I thought I'd have a proper mission to find some compatible Windows 7 drivers. Turns out though that all the XP ones from the Dell site work perfectly with Windows 7!
I got Windows 7 Pro for free from MSDN as I am a Computer Science student 
It runs surprisingly well considering the laptop only has 512MB ram. Writting this with Firefox open it is using 352MB. Visual Studio 2008 runs fine too. Aero wont enable as it has a Radeon 9000 graphics card which doesn't support DirectX 9. Tried the various hacks online but no joy.
I have set a side a 10GB partition where I plan to install Windows XP Pro SP3 because Windows 7 just like Vista still feels slower than good ole' XP!
Amazed that the XP drivers worked though, seems strange.
Feb/100
Backing up 1.3TB to DVD-R!
I saw two x50 DVD-R Spindles sitting on my desk so I decided to (start) organising and backing up a few years of data and media.
I am using ImgBurn to do this.
http://www.imgburn.com/index.php?act=download
It's the best free burning software I have come across. It used to only burn images (isos, bins, etc) iirc but now it will burn anything it seams.
Jan/100
Find all unread messages in your Gmail inbox and mark them as read
Simply search for "is:unread" without the quotes. Click on "All" next to "Select:" next click "Select all conversations that match this search" if you have more than 20. Finally select "More action" and "Mark as read".
There you go. If you are like me and you let thousands of emails pile up but you don't want to delete them, here is your solution!
Jan/100
200+ comments in russian?
Just removed over 200 comments in russian (I think). All with @ rambler dot ru email addresses and most from the following ips.
188.92.72.161
188.92.77.99
188.92.74.23
@rambler.ru
Jan/100
iPod Touch 32GB
So I got a sexy new iPod Touch 32GB from Santa. I jail broke it using blackra1n right out of the box and am still tinkering with things. For now I need to re-run blackra1n.exe if the device ever runs out of battery and turns of. Apparently the blackra1n team are working on this however. This is due to the fact that it is a 3rd generation ipod touch.
Happy New Year! Seeing 2010 everywhere still seems strange. I feel like I am in the future.